Infectious Disease
Drugs
Systems of the Human Body
Organs
Medical Emergencies
100
A disease-causing agent
What is a pathogen?
100
Phencyclidine and Lysergic acid diethylamide are classified as this type of drug
What is hallucinogens?
100
The body system that consists of the heart, blood, and blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
100
The largest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
100
Loss of consciousness, commonly called fainting
What is syncope?
200
This virus causes AIDS.
What is HIV?
200
The compulsive need to use a substance.
What is addiction?
200
A group of organs and other structures that brings air into the body and removes wastes through a process called breathing.
What is respiratory system?
200
The master organ in the human body.
What is the brain?
200
Disruption of blood flow to a part of the brain
What is stroke?
300
Malaria is this type of pathogen.
What is Protozoa?
300
Mental and physical discomfort produced with the cessation of substance use or abuse
What is withdrawal?
300
A group of organs and other structures that breaks down food and converts it to waste.
What is the digestive system?
300
The smallest organ in the human body.
What is the pineal gland?
300
Disorder involving the inability to produce or understand language.
What is aphasia?
400
Mad cow disease is this type of pathogen.
What is Prion?
400
A poisonous substance produced by microorganisms that can cause certain diseases but is also capable of inducing neutralizing antibodies.
What is a toxin?
400
A group of organs and other structures that protects the body, retains fluid and helps to prevent infection.
What is the integumentary system?
400
The organ that is responsible for pumping blood througout the human body.
What is the heart?
400
A blockage in an artery or a vein caused by a blood clot that travels through the blood.
What is an embolism?
500
Rabies is this type of transmission.
What is Vector-borne transmission?
500
A type of drug taken to treat allergic reactions.
What is antihistamines?
500
A group of tissues and other structures that supports the body, protects internal organs, allows movement, stores minerals, manufactures blood cells and creates heat.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
500
This organ sits at the junction between the large and small intestines.
What is the appendix?
500
Condition in which the body is overwhelmed by its response to infection.
What is sepsis?